Welcome to Tours of South India:
South India is the area encompassing India's
states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and
Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of
Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. South India lies in
the peninsular Deccan Plateau and is bounded by
the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and the Bay of
Bengal in the west, south and east respectively.
Inhabitants of South India are referred to as
South Indians. A majority of South Indians speak
one of the five Dravidian languages — Kannada,
Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Tulu.

South India consists of the four southern Indian
states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and
Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of
Puducherry and the Lakshadweep archipelago.
Together with Pondicherry, each South Indian
state has an elected state government, while the
Lakshadweep islands are centrally administered
by the President of India. The modern states of
South India were created as a result of the
States Reorganisation Act (1956), which
established states and union territories based
on linguistic boundaries.

The music of South India is known as Carnatic
music, which includes rhythmic and structured
music by composers like Purandara Dasa, Kanaka
Dasa, Tyagaraja, Annamacharya, Muthuswami
Dikshitar, Shyama Shastri, Subbaraya Shastri,
Mysore Vasudevachar and Swathi Thirunal. South
India is home to several distinct dance forms —
the Koodiyattam, Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi,
Kathakali, Yakshagana, Theyyam, Ottamthullal,
Oppana, Kerala Natanam and Mohiniaattam.

South India has two distinct styles of rock
architecture, the pure dravida style of Tamil
Nadu and the Vesara style (also called Karnata
dravida style) present in Karnataka. The
inspirational temple sculptures of Hampi, Badami,
Bhattiprolu, Pattadakal, Aihole, Belur, Halebidu,
Lakkundi, Shravanabelagola, Mahabalipuram,
Tanjore, Madurai and the mural paintings of
Travancore and Lepakshi temples, also stand as a
testament to South Indian culture.

The main spiritual traditions of South India
include both Shaivite and Vaishnavite branches
of Hinduism. Shravanabelagola in Karnataka is a
popular pilgrimage center for Jains. Ayyavazhi
is spread significantly across the southernmost
parts of South India. Its followers are more
densely populated in South Tamil Nadu and
Kerala. Kerala is also home to one of the oldest
Jewish communities in the world who are supposed
to have arrived in the Malabar coast during the
time of King Solomon. The oldest surviving
Jewish synagogue in the Commonwealth of Nations
is the Paradesi Synagogue in Kochi, Kerala.
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